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Heritage and the existential need for history / Maud Webster.
Penn Museum Library CC135 .W393 2021
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Webster, Maud, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cultural property--Antiquities.
- Cultural property.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Antiquities.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 119 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2021]
- Summary:
- "In a sweeping survey of archaeological sites dating from a span of thousands of years and located across continents, this book asks fundamental questions about the place of cultural heritage in Western society"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. On Being In Time: History, Death, Text
- History as Therapy
- The Matter of Literacy
- 2. Archaeological Cases: Blood From Stone
- Justifying the Present
- Picking Up and Starting Over
- 3. Historical Cases: Contextualizing The Self
- World of Letters
- Taking in Pictures and Places
- By Way of a Conclusion: The Heart of the Matter.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Webster, Maud, Heritage and the existential need for history
- ISBN:
- 9780813066844
- 0813066840
- OCLC:
- 1197843022
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